M.A., University of Warsaw, Poland, 1975
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1982
Phone: (732)445-4103 / Fax: (732)445-0006 / E-Mail: regulska@rci.rutgers.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS:
Local level democratization process and the roles of the state, civil society and market in this process. The process of decentralization and devolution of power during regime changes; the policy implications of such changes; the role that gender relations play in these processes.
POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:RECOGNITION

Fellowship from The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Residential Advisor to the Minister for Public Administration Reform, Warsaw, Poland, 1993-94

1996 The Cavalier Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, for contributions to the development of local democracy and local government reform in Poland, awarded by Poland's President, 1996

"Centralization Versus Decentralization: The Case of Financing Autonomous Local Governments in Poland," (With M. Bell) in Public Finance in a World of Transition, supplement to Public Finances/Finances Publiques, Vol. 47, pp. 187-201. 1992

BOOK CHAPTERS

"The Polish Road to Self-Governance" in Klein, P.V. (ed.) Struggling with the Communist Legacy: Studies of Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland. East European Monographs, pp. 175-190. 1999

"The rise and fall of public administration reform in Poland: why bureaucracy does not want to be reformed," in Barlow, M., I. Lengyel, R. Welch (eds.) Local Development and Public Administration in Transition, Jozef Attila University: Szeged, Hun-gary. 1998

"The Political and its Meaning for Women's Transitional Political in Poland?" chapter in Pickles, J. and Smith A. (eds.) Theorizing Transition: The Political Economy of Change in Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge pp. 309-329, 1998

"Building Democracy at the Local Level: The Case of Poland" in M. Lazar (ed.), For-tifying the Foundations: US Support for Developing and Strengthening Democracy in East Central Europe, International Institute of Education, New York, NY, pp. 32-39. 1996

"Transition to Local Democracy: Do Polish Women Have a Chance" in M. Rueschemeyer (ed.) Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe. M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, pp. 35-62. 1994

Rothstein,
Robert A. , Professor of Slavic & Judaic Studies and of Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
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Ph.D., Harvard, 1967
Phone: 413-545-0929 / E-Mail: rar@slavic.umass.edu
Secretary-Treasurer of the American Committee of Slavists
American Contact for XII Quinquennial International Congress of Slavists to take place in Krakow on August 26-September 3, 1998
MAJOR INTERESTS: Slavic linguistics; also a long-standing interest in folklore. POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:PUBLICATIONS

"The Kazan School of Polish Linguistics and its Place in the International Development of Phonology," by Roman Jakobson, from his selected writings (The Hague: Mouton, 1971) pp. 394-428 [translated from the Polish original (1960)]

BOOK REVIEWS

"The Polish Language," by Stanislaw Westfal, (Rome, 1966) in Slavic and East European Journal, 14, 1970, pp. 227-228

Ph.D., University of Michigan
Phone: 273-2765 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: Konrad.Sadkowski@uni.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS:
Role of the Catholic Church in shaping national identity in Poland between 1863 and 1939 and the intersection between religion and politics, especially nationalism, in Eastern Europe and Europe as a whole.POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:BOOKS

"Kasimir Twardowski: An Essay on the Borderlines of Psychology, Ontology and Logic", K. Szaniawski, ed., The Vienna Circle and the Philosophy
of the Lvov-Warsaw School, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster: Kluwer, 1989, 313-373.

Ph.D. . . .
Phone: (617) 496-3291 / Fax: . . . / E-Mail: szporluk@fas.harvard.edu
MAJOR INTERESTS:
Modern Ukraine (from the late 18th century to the present); Poland since 1795; the process of national identity building and rebuilding in post-Communist Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. POLAND RELATED SCHOLARSHIP:PUBLICATIONS

"Nationalism after Communism: Reflections on Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Poland."
Ernest Gellner Lecture of Nations and Nationalism. London School of Economics and
Political Science, 27 March. Nations and Nationalism 4 (e): 301-20. 1998.